Carol Ashworth This is Me

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1. 1. American Libraries: 2001 Midwinter Meeting

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   Published on: 11/12/2005   Last Visited: 11/12/2005

   As Carol Ashworth, ALA's UCITA Grassroots Coordinator, explained, UCITA is a proposed state law that would regulate transactions involving computer software, online databases, and other intangible goods to change the rules for purchasing and using digital information. Its primary supporters are publishers and large software producers who claim that it's needed to promote e-commerce, said Ashworth. In addition to the library community, consumer-protection organizations and some business groups oppose the law.
   
   Ashworth added that UCITA's restrictions could prevent libraries from providing a product to more than one user at a time or transferring a copy for interlibrary loan purposes. The law's provisions could even forbid public discussion of a product's flaws, she warned.

2. 2. ACM News Service

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   Published on: 2/26/2005   Last Visited: 6/25/2006

   "A lot of people say it's dead, but we'd rather say it's dormant," says Carol Ashworth, coordinator for the Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions (AFFECT), an umbrella group of UCITA opponents.

3. 3. American Libraries: 2001 Midwinter Meeting

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   Published on: 3/12/2001   Last Visited: 3/12/2001

   As Carol Ashworth , ALA's UCITA Grassroots Coordinator , explained , UCITA is a proposed state law that would regulate transactions involving computer software , online databases , and other intangible goods to change the rules for purchasing and using digital information. Its primary supporters are publishers and large software producers who claim that it's needed to promote e-commerce , said Ashworth. In addition to the library community , consumer-protection organizations and some business groups oppose the law.
   
   Ashworth added that UCITA's restrictions could prevent libraries from providing a product to more than one user at a time or transferring a copy for interlibrary loan purposes. The law's provisions could even forbid public discussion of a product's flaws , she warned.